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African Women’s Fight for Self-actualization under the Rule of Patriarchy in M. Mokeddem’s L’Interdite, T. Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, D. Lessing’s The Grass Is Singing and N. El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero.
(جامعة الجزائر2 أبو القاسم سعد الله Algiers2 University Abu El Kacem Saad Allah, 2024) Dahman دحمان, Leila ليلى; Ait Hamou, Louisa (مدير البحث)
This work aims to inquire into the struggles that women have to go through in order to reach self-actualization under the rule of patriarchy in the four African novels L’interdite (1993) by Algerian writer Malika Mokeddem, Nervous Conditions (1988) by the Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Grass Is Singing (1950) by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, and Woman at Point Zero (1977) by Egyptian writer and activist Nawel El Saadawi. The thesis endeavors to: study the oppression that the female characters experience, to analyze the state of alienation that results from it, and to explore the strategies of resistance that women use in their attempts to reach fulfillment. Thus, through the use of feminist literary criticism, the work seeks first to look at the functioning of patriarchy, its suppressive treatment of women and the violence and abuse that women are subjected to in patriarchal societies. Then, it indents to probe into the different feelings of estrangement that ensue from abuses that women have to endure. By approaching the works from the perspective of social-psychology which views alienation as a social process, it will look at women’s socialization, their quest for identity, and their silencing by society. Finally, it undertakes to examine the various forms of negotiation and rebellion that female characters adopt in order to face oppression and eventually reach a stage of self-realization which might take various forms for the different female characters. By the end of their fight, some of them manage to find a form of balance that bring them fulfillment while others experience liberating deaths يهدف هذا العمل إلى التحقيق في النضالات التي يتعين على المرأة أن تمر بها من أجل الوصول إلى تحقيق الذات في ظل حكم الأبوية في أربع روايات أفريقية الممنوعة ) 1993 ( للكاتبة الجزائرية مليكة مقدم ، الظروف العصبية ( 1988 ( من قبل كاتبة من الزيمبابوي تسيتسي دانغاريمبجا ، العشب يغني ) 1950 ( للفائزة بجائزة نوبل دوريس ليسينج ، وامرأة عند النقطة صفر ) 1977 ( للكاتب والناشط المصري نوال السعداوي. تسعى الرسالة إلى: دراسة الاضطهاد الذي تتعرض له الشخصيات الأنثوية ، وتحليل حالة الاغتراب التي تنتج عنه ، واستكشاف استراتيجيات المقاومة التي تستخدمها النساء في محاولاتهن للوصول إلى الإنجاز. وهكذا ، من خلال استخدام النسوية ، يسعى العمل أولا ا إلى النظر في سير النظام الأبوي ، ومعاملته القمعية للمرأة والعنف والإساءة التي تتعرض لها المرأة في المجتمعات الأبوية. بعد ذلك ، يدقق في التحقيق في مشاعر الاغتراب المختلفة التي تنجم عن الانتهاكات التي يتعين على النساء تحملها. من خلال الاقتراب من الأعمال من منظور علم النفس الاجتماعي الذي ينظر إلى الاغتراب كعملية اجتماعية ، فإنه سينظر في التنشئة الاجتماعية للمرأة ، وبحثها عن الهوية ، وإسكات المجتمع لها. أخي ا را ، تتعهد بدراسة الأشكال المختلفة للتفاوض والتمرد التي تتبناها الشخصيات النسائية من أجل مواجهة الاضطهاد والوصول في النهاية إلى مرحلة أو تحقيق الذات والتي قد تتخذ أشكا ا لا مختلفة بالنسبة للشخصيات النسائية المختلفة. بحلول نهاية قتالهم ، تمكن بعضهم من إيجاد شكل من أشكال الإنجاز بينما يختبر الآخرون الموت المحرر
WOMENS' POSITIONS AND ROLES IN CONTEMPORARY GHANA IN AMA ATA AIDOO'S NOVELS
(University of Algiers. Faculty of Arts and Languages, 2009) Messaoudi, Lila; Bensemmane, M’hamed (Directeur de thèse)
An examination of the existing scholarship on African women writers shows that the question of negotiating the past and the present in the contemporary period is one of the crucial discussions in African women's literature. However, this negotiation is hardly dealt with as an issue that can potentially lead to the re-evaluation of women's roles and status in contemporary Africa, so as to break away from the nostalgia for pre-colonial women's images and roles and to cast a critical eye on Western imported lifestyles. As social change occurs, women's position in Africa is undergoing an ever changing redefinition especially when it is considered within the larger scope of nationalism. This is what this dissertation proposes, a re-reading of Ama Ata Aidoo's novels, through the new prism of women's roles as part of the cultural negotiation in contemporary Ghana. In doing so, the dissertation goes beyond the paradigm of binary opposition that undergirds the critical field concerning writings by African women in favour of the innovative concept of negotiation. In addressing women's issues such as marriage, polygamy and love within the broader context of nationhood and nationalism, this study puts forward the argument that Ama Ata Aidoo has devised a space of creativity for herself through an innovative aesthetic vacuum, hitherto the preserve of men, and from which she poses, discusses and addresses through negotiation, those cultural issues affecting her and her female characters. Chapter One presents a theoretical basis for this study by providing a frame of discussion regarding the concepts of Feminism, Womanism, Gender, Socialization as well as Aidoo's commitment to these concepts, her commitment to the nation in order to explain how she is able to negotiate her commitment to both African women's issues and nationalism. Chapter Two deals with the dilemma posed in Our Sister Killjoy; Nationalism is discussed specifically in relation to women's issues, as well as to Gender and Identity. Through this association, we discuss the contentions as well as the negotiation of these two crucial issues in African literature, particularly in African women's literature. Chapter Three engages both the personal and the political in Changes, as it questions the notion of education and redefines the practice of polygamy to suit women's needs and identities in contemporary Ghana. Chapter Four explores Aidoo's style in handling the issues discussed in the above chapters, and her successful attempt in negotiating traditional storytelling and modernist techniques, as a vivid example of how to negotiate past and present. Aidoo thus makes a literary compact with her bold views concerning the role of an intellectual woman in Ghana, by engaging in a mode of writing combining post modernism with traditional orature.

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